bbc.co.uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/gh4h
Juice Aleem first made waves as one third of New Flesh, a trailblazing UK crew who, across three albums of lyrically intelligent rap coloured in with soca, electro and dancehall sounds, did much to give UK hip-hop a distinctly homegrown flavour. Aleem's debut solo album, recorded in collaboration with Gamma producer Blackitude, is, on the surface, similar to the output of New Flesh, but if anything this finds Aleem musing more personally, pondering religion and race, lashing out at lazy rappers, and getting philosophical about his place as a third-generation immigrant in a land where, ''rice and peas is now chips and ketchup''..

 

www.nme.com

http://www.nme.com/reviews/juice-aleem/10734
Blackitude’s feather-light production mixes well with Juice’s unflappably British lines about “beef curtains”. Like stablemate Roots Manuva, he comes across as a clever, chill bro who you could have a beer with and he’d listen to your problems and nod appropriately...

 

guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/aug/02/juice-aleem-jerusalem-come
It has not been due to a skills shortage that Birmingham rapper Juice Aleem has taken more than 20 years to release a solo album. He proved his lyrical talents with New Flesh and Gamma, hip-hop collectives that combined futuristic sounds with their Jamaican heritage. Here, he delves deeper into the past. "Straight Out of BC" uses biblical imagery to cast a light on the present. He gets a bit shrill on "KunteKinteTarrDiss, decrying everyone from "overpaid, bisexual footballers" to Jamie Oliver, but otherwise he is a compelling presence...

 

independant.co.uk

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-juice-aleem-jerusalaam-come-big-dada-1765063.html
Aleem hails from Birmingham, though judging by his splendid get-up on the sleeve of Jerusalaam Come – that fez and sword combination is so fetching for a fellow – he shares spiritual roots with both the more righteous of roots-reggae Rastafarians and with the quasi-Pharaonic, hard line Afrocentrism of X Clan. There's certainly a similarly low tolerance for the kind of gangsta slackness that has wrought such damage among Birmingham's black communities. In the Biblical allegory of "The Fallen (Gen. 15.13)", he proclaims how "Fully-grown babies need to learn how to speak again/The pre-Babel, antediluvian, pre-natal /The language that we use now, it proves fatal"...

 

flyglobalmusic.com

http://www.flyglobalmusic.com/fly/archives/europe_reviews/juice_aleem_jerusalaam_come.html
Wow! This is an incredible debut solo album by Juice Aleem who won’t be unknown for much longer, this is Mercury Prize winning material!...